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Happy Lunar New Year
🕑 Added 2022-01-31 06:00:20 +0000 UTCIt's a bit early, but Happy Lunar New Year to everyone! It's the year of the tiger and to celebrate, I drew my other favorite main character--Teying!
Warning, below is mostly my unfiltered rambling introspection about my work habits. I'll bold the parts that are more relevant if anyone's interested.
It isn't nearly as exciting as my other New Year drawing, but I had a lot of fun :)! It was good to carve out a bit of time for this. I've been really wearing myself out with a combination of webcomic work, Patreon art, side projects, and now school work too. I'm not really sure if I had a break day in the last month. It's all work I enjoy though! But even though it feels like I should be doing more, I know it's been a lot and I've been feeling the effects of spreading myself a little thin. I wonder how long I can keep the particular lifestyle going and, with the new lunar year, I wonder what I truly value and what I should do to ensure that I can be the best me, both personally and creatively.
The last year has thoroughly taught me my limits and boundaries. What is feasible and what is feasible WHIE BEING HEALTHY. I have a terrible habit of working myself until the very limit, shutting down for a day or two, and doing it all over again.
I'd always been confident that working as freelancer would be easy. I know how to work without break so there's nothing stopping me from doing so once it's my job. That's the issue though. I can work nonstop without a break, but now I don't know how to take a break in a healthy way. I just feel guilty because in that time, I could be doing work for Patreon! I could do more worldbuilding, improve my art (my anatomy always needs some fixing haha), anything! The guilt of doing nothing eats me up more than the break helps sometimes. I have a lot to figure out to make working feasible long term because I do want to do art for the rest of my life! I want to dedicate myself to my stories and offering y'all some form of entertainment and brightness and I mean, I guess like monsterfucker horniness too???
I'm hoping to get a colorist that'll be able to do all the flat colors for my comic. I'm also probably adjusting Patreon rewards for a time to just simplify them more. The same content will show up, but it'll be more simply put as ($3 - illustrations and comics, $5 - NSFW, $10 - ooo ultra sneak peaks to how much of a nerd Chris is). I don't like giving any expectations I can't meet (and, quite frankly, outperform). Beyond that I have no substantial change of plans haha. Right now I'm just trying to learn to be gentle with myself.
I hope that this hasn't been too annoying to read. I wanted to make a post about this sort of thing for the last few days, but it just all came out in one go here. Something about New Years makes me like this smh. Anyways, thank you for reading through this. I appreciate y'all immensely. I promise I won't grumble like this again for awhile. We'll save it for next year!
Have a wonderful lunar new year everyone. Hugs and kisses xoxo lolol
